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"Metal" would be an apt term for her, if only it wasn't too mild to describe her. This woman was casting lead ballast under her father's supervision to go sailing on a stormy lake when she was 8. She was one of the first women to be allowed in her grad school engineering program. She and her friend organized a 10 year long hostile takeover of our physics department's hiring committee and then spent the next 20 years systemically hiring decent and diverse people while driving out the bigoted assholes, driven by sheer bare-knuckled spite and an absolutely unbreakable will.

And I will never forget the horror with which she once described the insanity that is chemists. Back when she'd worked in industry, she'd had a crucible with a metal residue on the inside which she just could not scrub out. So she went to one of the company's chemists for help, figuring he'd know what to do.

And the fucking madman, in defiance of all sense and reason, pulled out a fucking squirt bottle of hydrofluoric acid from his desk drawer, spritzed it in the crucible, wiped it out with a rag and a stir rod, and gave it back to her. He then offered her the squirt bottle to take.

My professor - one of the most inspiringly hardcore people I've ever met - had a haunted expression on her face as she told us she had declined. But that the madman had simply smiled, shrugged, put the bottle away, and told her that it was no trouble, if she ever needed a crucible cleaned again just come on back.

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

From what we know, the Anomaly stuff was an elaborate lead-up to Edge of Fate, Kepler and the Nine because the final reveal of the dungeon was the Anomaly broadcasting Lodi's message back to us. The Anomaly itself seems to have been built as a device to communicate with something, which I assume was probably the Nine or maybe whatever was detected on Kepler, and it ended up sending us Lodi's message.

hi!!!! I'm the number one Corrupted Puppeteer fan in the entire universe so I can actually give some context.

First off, we have no fucking clue what the Anomaly is. Only that it received Lodi's message from Kepler. It will forever remain unexplained and exist only to take cool photos of the suppressor man with.

The Puppeteer itself is Clovis' attempt at creating an artificial Vex mind. This is explained by Astraea in the logs from the questline pretty much nobody did because it had math or whatever. Of course, like everything Clovis does, this went terribly wrong. The Vesper Station got abandoned for reasons that might have been explained but they escape me right now, and sat there for years.

Then you and Taniks crashed the Morning Star during the events of DSC.

Debris from the wreck hit and ruined the Station, and let the Puppeteer escape. You can see where it was originally contained in the first room you enter!

The Atraks specifics are unclear of whether it's the core Atraks' corpse or an extra frame. Given that Atraks is smart as fuck and we see a ketch during the spacewalk, it's likely she was controlling the clones from outside of the Crypt. It was hinted at back during Pantheon that we didn't kill the real Atraks anyway, and that if she is dead, there's a back-up of her somewhere on Europa. Alas, plot threads that will never be explored.

The Puppeteer was also the second boss when you fought it, because of it being able to jump bodies. Astraea will tell you this during the 1-2 transition if you've done the full questline + the binary puzzle needed for the title and instant Ice Breaker masterwork.

Likely due to some combination of Exos being BrayTech stuff and Vex being mechanical goblins, the Puppeteer was able to inhabit the copy. When Salvation defectors arrived and tried to make their home on the Station, it basically stalked each one of them down and did something to integrate it into it's own kind of hive mind. Like a miniature Vex network, I'd reckon? Given what the Puppeteer is and everything. That's why, as Spider points out in the quest, all the creepy SIVA looking wiring around the station is a mess. The Puppeteer is controlling every single body in the station. And the Puppeteer is really bad at wirework apparently.

Notable fun facts include: -You can see skiffs moving back and forth hauling materials to the anomaly in the skybox. Unless they're building the Anomaly entirely out of the Vesper Station remains, this implies that the Puppeteer's mental network has a ridiculously far extension -Atraks clones in DSC dissipate upon being destroyed, but puppet corpses stay after death. I've thought about how this could work, that perhaps the puppets we fight are being converted from regular eliksni, but it seems to produce the puppets in the exact same way Atraks produces copies. Regardless of what the reason behind the corpses remaining is, at least you can get some really funny clips out of it with Destiny 2 corpse physics. -It has a different gun from Atraks (a Wire Rifle over a Shock Rifle. Or QB over LoW)

Anyway I will vanish off into the night now. I just needed to Puppeteer post. I have been thinking endlessly about both Atraks-1 and the Corrupted Puppeteer since Vesper's Host first came out and given how much the dungeon means to me, I will probably be thinking about them forever.